Sheila Roberts is hungry … for a recipe from a reader to include in Starting Over on Blackberry Lane character Beth’s fictitious cookbook. Starting Over on Blackberry Lane, arriving Feb. 28, is book 10 in the Life in Icicle Falls series.

Sheila Roberts

Sheila: So the hunky handyman in my Feb. 28 novel, Starting Over on Blackberry Lane, advises, “Food is like sex. It’s a gift. You should enjoy it.”

It seems Griffin James would rather take photos of food than eat it. Woah! Not me. I’m a foodie, even more so, a bakeaholic. I love to try new recipes, something I developed a passion for with the help of my mother and grandmother, who introduced me to the joys of cooking when I was so young I had to stand on a chair to roll out pie crust. Which probably explains how I wound up writing into my upcoming small-town contemporary romance a woman, Beth Mallow, who’s publishing a cookbook of her late-mother’s recipes.

Guess what? Beth needs one more recipe to make her cookbook complete. So, at Beth’s prompting (wink wink), I’m launching Sheila Roberts’ Starting Over on Blackberry Lane Recipe Contest, to find one original reader recipe that will be included (wink wink) in Beth’s fictitious cookbook. More fun? You readers will pick the grand prize winner, who will receive something I’ve been lusting for (besides Grant Masters): a complete, 12-piece set of Rachael Ray Cucina Hard Enameled Nonstick Cookware (and a signed copy of the book)!

Grab your recipe box and pick out a scrumptious recipe — for either a main course or a dessert — and enter it on my contest page. (The recipe must be an original one that, to your knowledge, hasn’t been published or copyrighted.) You may enter as many recipes as you like. You have until 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, March 10, to enter. Then a panel of three other foodies will pick five finalists. And YOU readers will pick the final winner. Be sure to tell me on the entry form that you heard about the contest on USA TODAY’s HEA!

Back to Grant. Oh, my, he’s turning women’s heads in Icicle Falls. His Honey Do home repair business is brand new — and booming! Three women friends pool their resources to win “him” during the Raise the Roof bake-off fundraiser to restore historical buildings. Good food, good books and good times are all meant to be shared, right? But three women and one hunky handyman? How do you think this one’s going to turn out?